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Patented May 28, 1935 7"J` UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CONTAINER Samuel Karasik, Oak Park, Ill., assignor to The Curtiss Candy Company, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Illinois i Application August 18, 1934, Serial No. 740,396

1 Claim. (Cl. 229-30) This invention has to do with a container or `slit IG. At its other edge, section I'I has an exbox of simple structure and made from a blank tension I9 separated by score 25. A tab 2| eX- of foldable sheet material. tends from the free short edge of member I 9 be- Ainong the objects of the present invention ing separated therefrom by a score 22. 5 is the provision of: i Section I8 has an extension 20 separated from 5 A blank of simplified form having foldable secit by a score 26. Member 20 is without a tab or tions so arranged that the number of operations tabs. Sections I9 and 20 are separated one from required to construct a container may be reduced; another by the slit i6 which divides sections II and and I2.

`10 An improved container of compact structure One plan of folding the blank follows. Sec- 10 having a reinforced bottom and requiringa minitions II and l2 are turned about the fold lines mum amount of material. 23 and 24 into a plane normal to that of sections The above and other desirable objectswill be- Il and I 8. The upper bottom section I8 is discorne apparent upon reading the following deposed upon section I'I as section I2 is folded upon scription of the one form of the invention herein the score I5. Sections I'I and I8 at this stage 15 described and by referring to the accompanying Will be in one plane, and sections II and" I2 Will single sheet of drawings, hereby made a part of be in planes normal thereto.

.this application, and in which: Sections I9 and 20 are next folded about the Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank Whichis scores 25 and 26. The four vertical side Walls of foldable into a container embodying the subject the container are thus formed from sections II, 20

matter of the present invention; and l I2, I9 and 20.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a container formed Tabs I3, I4 and 2I hold the side walls of the from the blank shown in Figure 1. package in position. Tab I4 is bent upon score Like reference characters are used throughout 21 to rest against the outer side of section I9;

25 the following description and in the drawing for tab 2I is bent about score 22 to rest against sec- 25 designating similar parts. tion 20 at one end of its outer side; and the tab A blank l! is formed usually of cardboard, I3 is bent about score 28 to rest against the other though it may be of any other sheet material that end of the outer face of section 20. The tabs is foldable and which has suicient strength. It I3, I4 and 2I may be attached to the outer face is desirable that the material employed be such portions of the side walls upon which they rest 3o that the blank Hl may be out from a larger piece .by means of glue, staples, or other conventional of the material by means of a die and With little fastening means.

Waste. Such die may SCOle the Surface Of the Any form 0f @over member may be used upon blank l0 concurrently With the Cutting 0f the the container. When desired, two of the members blank- In Figure l, the dotted lines Within the herein described may be telesooped one over the 35 body of the blank I0 represent such scores 0r 'other' The outer member then Should be of predetermined fold lnesslightly larger dimensions. A `container con` The blank I Comprlses two mein Sections n structed in accordance with the present invenafld '8 Whoh form the loper and loWof bottom tion has a douwe bottom. The two sido walls 40 member? of a" box- Sectlon a rests upon Sec' and I2 are integral providing strength at the cor- 40 tion Il 1n an assembled box. Sections I'I and I8 ner between them' The other Corners `of the box in the present fof m of box aire in the form of are at the intersection of the side walls and the squares for convenience. Sections I'I and I8 are tabs I3 I4 and 2| are of adequate strength. separated one from the other by a su? or Cut 6. The blank is substantially rectangular hence a maarassistanat;ne of my be from a piece of sheet material of suitable dimensions short slde from Whlch a tab I3 proJects separated with a minimum of Waste' The blank is assenb from the member II by a score 28. Member I8 has at its edge a similar extension I2 separated bled nto a' Contamer Wlth few Operatlone The by a score 24. Section I2 has a free short edge WP mtegral Slee Wan Seetlons and '2 Te 50 from which a, tab |4 projects, the tab being Sep.. qulre no attachmg means at then' intersection arated from the main body of section l2 by a and are 'folded into proper position incidentally score 21. to the movement of one bottom sectionover the Sections II and I2 are separated one from other. Fastening means or an adhesive is necesanother by a score I5 Which is in alignment with sary at three corners only of the box. 55

What is claimed as neW and is desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:

A blank for forming a, box and comprising opposed members divided in part by a slit and in 5 part by a, score, each member having a mein body and opposed extensions, one extension from each member being integral with an extension from the other member and separated by such score, and the main bodies and the other extensions being separated by such slit, there being tabs upon three of said extensions and the fourth being Without a tab.

SAMUEL KARASIK. 

